However, as much as anyone loves their smartphone, there will be aspects of their chosen device they wish were somehow different or better. There may never be such a thing as a perfect smartphone, but that won’t stop us trying to build one. At least on paper. Welcome to this week’s We Ask You all about your perfect smartphone.

This is meant to be your perfect smartphone, after all. So think big. Anything goes, although if your ideas are too wacky we cannot guarantee they’ll make it into the final design. Not that we’re actually going to make this perfect smartphone, you understand, but we will be using the best suggestions proffered to detail a kind of Frankenstein’s monster of a smartphone.

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1. 4.3 - 4.5 inches (max)
2. without bezels (almost)
3. front speakers (htc like)
4. super white
5. nice classy design (again htc like)
6. 20 - 30 ultrapixel back cam
7. 8 ultrapixel or 16 mp and upper front cam with flash
(it would be even better if the back cam could turn 180 degrees like oppo)
8. it would of course be running if not the latest cyanogenmod at least latest android bloatware free)
9. it should have at least Quad-core 2 GHz and up CPU
10. 3 gb RAM
11. with 1080 x 1920 pixels resolution
12. and last but not least a battery that will last at least 2 days with wifi and games running all the time! (and it will charge like 80% in 10 minutes)

My perfect phone would be about the size of iphone 6.
-the entire front of the phone to be touchscreen made of sapphire glass with touch id built into screen
-screen resolution 2k hd and look like it to the eye
-POWERFUL battery (I want it to last a couple days at least at max settings/usage before the next charge)
-Pureview or Ultra pixel camera (at least 20 mp) w/ OIS and LG laser focus, Xenon & led flash
- OS combo of reliability/features of iOS and easiness of windows but customization options of android with Cortana (also be able to use apple stuff such as itunes easy, compatible with everything)
-awesome speakers on the front like the htc one m9 (Boomsound speakers)
- ergonomics of the physical phone like iphone 6 with the same feel in hand but waterproof
-fast, wireless charging
-tap screen on and off
-phone turns in hd projector

literally take the best of top smartphones (iphone 6, iphone 6 plus, nokia lumia phones, htc one m8 or m9, galaxy s6 edge, and LG G3 phone) and cram it into a one package with an awesome battery and turns into a hd projector also

Titanium finish, 5 A of battery, 64 bit OS and CPU architecture, 4 GB of RAM, 64 GB of Storage with SD card slot, camera sensor like the one in Sony Xperia Z3 with the other camera specs from iPhone 6 plus, UI like the one in iOS devices, finger print recognition, wireless charging, removable battery

1) A replaceable battery. It would be smaller than carrying an external battery and would extend the life of the phone as batteries lose their capability.

2) Grippy chassis. I love my Moto X 2nd gen with a leather back except for the slippery metal sides. If it must be metal (and I, for one, don't care), make it rough, or just use a grippy plastic like the Nexus 5.

3) External temperature. Weather apps are nice but I want to know how hot/cold it is where I'm standing.

High end phones are already a technological marvel. Next time I buy myself a phone, it'll have a UHD screen and probably at least 4GB RAM, plus 128GB+ removable storage and a user-replaceable battery. I can say that my perfect phone would be made of better materials so that I don't have to worry about scratching the lens on whatever happens to be in my pocket, but I'm sure that work on that is already ongoing.

So here's what I want: more sensible software update policies. On Android, that means being able to grab a new OS core on a two year old, non-premium phone regardless of manufacturer or carrier AND the ability to block, freeze or easily revert application updates to their most satisfying, useful versions. I can do that on a rooted phone or if I've taken the time to back up a .APK, but I shouldn't have to.

I would also be willing to pay extra for a phone that opts out of the top five or so advertising networks used in Android mobile apps. I suspect that ad blocking is the reason my personal GS4 has a longer battery life than anyone else I know who has a Galaxy S-class phone.

My perfect phone would do everything over LTE. In the USA, phones are carrier-locked between three different major phone networks. That's probably not going to change for voice service, but LTE equipment is LTE equipment, so that phone would at last be fully portable between services.

Finally, my perfect phone would not support SMS messaging. SMS is dumb. Being tied to a single device is dumb. Character limits are dumb. I've addressed that matter for myself, but text messaging is in my opinion the 5.25" floppy drive of the smartphone world and it needs to die.

Take a galaxy note 4, make it 64gb internally with 32gb ram. Put the LG laser focus system on the camera. Last but not least, put a battery in there that could jump start a truck, I'm sick I'd phones that run out of juice, no matter what my activities are during the day, no matter how long my day might last.

A battery that will last a couple of days when EVERYTHING is turned on and being used at its maximum drain settings. ie: Screen, Wi-Fi, 4G (or 5G, etc.), Playing Video whilst downloading Windows 10 and recording the world around you 1080p, etc.

THAT. BATTERY.
Three years ago I bought the same phone as you, and today I still don't feel the pressure to upgrade to a newer phone. The S2 is fast enough, has an excellent camera, is compatible with most apps and still gets devlopment (just not from Samsung).
The only thing that I have never been satisfied is battery life, not with tne stock Gingerbread it came with, not with Cyanogen's KitKat I have today, not with other ROMs I have tried. Full battery at 5AM, down to 40% at noon (the only battery eating feature I use is location services, but I need that).
I also would like an IR emitter/receiver for remote control, and maybe more sensors (temperature, barometric pressure)

i go with the people, but the most important thing is more and more longer battery life, just like nokia 3310 for example because i dont't like carrying power bank, it's like carrying two phones everywhere you go